Data Governance Specialist

Philippine Batteries Incorporated; Philippines; On-site; PHP 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Philippine Batteries Incorporated is seeking a senior governance professional to lead data governance, policy ownership, and stewardship across priority data products and AI applications in a Philippine-based operation.

You will define and enforce data policies, manage ownership registries, and coordinate privacy, security, and cross-border compliance efforts while driving quality and conformance with business stewards and senior stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in a related field.
• 3+ years in data governance, data management, information security, compliance or audit.
• Certifications preferred: CDMP, DAMA, or equivalent data-management certs.

Responsibilities

• Define governance policies, data classifications, ownership and stewardship models, access rules, retention schedules and quality standards.
• Maintain ownership registry with business and technical owners for priority data products, metrics, models and AI applications.
• Coordinate privacy, security, legal, compliance, audit and cross-border data requirements.
• Establish governance requirements for models, AI applications, prompts, evaluation data and outputs.
• Support audit requests with evidence.
• Define data-quality rules and service levels with business stewards; monitor conformance.
• Run stewardship workflow: intake, triage, remediation and closure.
• Report governance posture and unresolved issues to leadership.

Skills

Data governance

DAMA-DMBOK knowledge

SQL

Policy enforcement

Data-quality design

Privacy regulation

Access management

Documentation discipline

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Management/Information Technology/Law/Business/Accountancy

Tools

Unity Catalog

Data catalogue

Access-control systems

Job description

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

Policy and ownership

• Define governance policies, data classifications, ownership and stewardship models, access rules, retention schedules and quality standards.
• Maintain the ownership registry naming a business owner and a technical owner for every priority data product, metric, model and AI application.
• Drive resolution of unowned or disputed data assets.

Platform governance

• Administer and monitor Unity Catalog controls, lineage, metadata, tagging and policy enforcement.
• Operate access review cycles and report exceptions.
• Maintain the certified data-product register and its evidence.

Risk, privacy and compliance

• Coordinate privacy, security, legal, compliance, audit and cross-border data requirements.
• Establish governance requirements for models, AI applications, prompts, evaluation data and sensitive outputs.
• Support internal and external audit requests with evidence.

Quality and stewardship

• Define data-quality rules and service levels with business stewards and monitor conformance.
• Run the stewardship workflow — issue intake, triage, remediation and closure.
• Report governance posture and unresolved issues to the BIDA Business Partner Head and the Head of BIDA.

Key Deliverables

• Enterprise data governance framework and policy set.
• Ownership registry, access matrix and classification standards.
• Data-quality rules, service levels and conformance reporting.
• Stewardship workflow and issue register.
• Audit evidence packs and governance posture reporting.

Accountability and Success Measures

• Completeness of ownership and metadata coverage for priority assets.
• Access discipline and the absence of unreviewed standing access.
• Compliance with privacy, retention and cross-border requirements.
• Timely resolution of governance and quality issues.
• Readiness to evidence controls on demand.

Working Relationships

• Internal: Data Engineers; BI & AI Context Engineers; AI / LLM Engineers; Data & AI Translators; business data owners and stewards; Legal; Compliance; Cybersecurity; Internal Audit; HR for people data.
• External: auditors and regulators, as directed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Management, Information Technology, Law, Business, Accountancy or a related field.
• Three or more years in data governance, data management, information security, compliance or audit. Experience operating a data catalogue and access-control regime is preferred.
• Certifications preferred: CDMP, DAMA, or equivalent data-management certification. Optional: CIPP, CISA, ISO 27001 lead implementer.
• Technical Skills:

• Data governance frameworks such as DAMA-DMBOK.
• Unity Catalog or an equivalent catalogue, including lineage, tagging and policy enforcement.
• SQL for profiling and control testing.
• Data-quality rule design and measurement.
• Privacy regulation applicable to the Philippines and to cross-border operations.
• Access management, classification and retention practice.
• AI governance concepts — model documentation, evaluation evidence, output controls.

Behavioural Competencies

• Persistence in pursuing ownership and closure.
• Comfort holding senior stakeholders to a standard.
• Precision and documentation discipline.
• Pragmatism — governance that enables use rather than blocking it.
• Confidentiality and sound judgement.